Easter 68
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Easter 68 |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 14 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Hornig |
| script | Harry Hornig |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films |
| camera |
Werner Heydn Artur Killus |
| cut | Christel Hemmerling |
| occupation | |
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Easter 68 with the subtitle A film about the emergency exercises in West Germany and West Berlin is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries by Harry Hornig from 1968.
action
On Maundy Thursday 1968, a fascist loyal to the government fired at the emergency opponent Rudi Dutschke , according to the commentator. On the following Good Friday the protests of the extra-parliamentary opposition developed in the Federal Republic and West Berlin against the presumed instigators of the attack , the Springer-Verlag , Franz Josef Strauss and the leadership of the SPD . On Holy Saturday night, many workers, students and schoolchildren block the Springer press publishing houses and printing works.
At Easter 1968 the emergency coalition in Bonn saw a new political situation coming. The united front against the planned coup from above is beginning to form. In the campaign for disarmament and democracy, the number of those who demand recognition of the GDR as a real basis for a West German peace policy is growing . It is certain that the emergency laws will worsen relations with the other part of Germany, which is one of the reasons why over 50,000 people take to the streets in Berlin. Here the civil war troops (that's how the police are called in the film) of the Senate of West Berlin marches against their internal enemy. The acquittal of Benno Ohnesorg's murderer acts like a license and an invitation to act ruthlessly against the demonstrators. At Easter 1968 West Berlin becomes a great training ground for the emergency laws that politicians in the Bonn emergency coalition have been calling for for weeks. In addition to the images from today, comparative images from 1923 are shown of how the corporate bosses used police officers against striking workers, as well as images from the May Day in 1929. As a result of the film, it is established that something has been set in motion against the threatening neo-fascism that nobody else has can stop a strong resistance to the emergency dictatorship.
production
Easter 68 was shot as a black and white film and had its first showing on June 28, 1968.
criticism
In an article about the 6th International Short Film Festival in Kraków , Günter Sobe writes in the Berliner Zeitung that this strip has little more to offer than newsreel information. The sought-after ironic comment is sometimes embarrassing.
Web links
- Easter 68 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Easter 68 at filmportal.de
- Easter 68 at the DEFA Foundation
- Berlin: Glances Insights Opposites by Jeanpaul Goergen in the Zeughaus Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 29, 1969, p. 10